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Good morning,
There are several things I'd like to reach an all time high for in my life. One of them is loving God until He is happy with my love for Him. The next thing would be that He knows that I fully trust Him with everything and everyone in my life. This verse is one that I have been meditating on; "Lean on, trust in, and be confident in the Lord with all your heart and mind and do not rely on your own insight or understanding." (Prov. 3:5) Lean means to incline or bend in opinion, feelings, or actions; to be supported by; to depend, rely on or gravitate towards; to prefer. So here we are told to gravitate or prefer God's will and way. We are to be confident [certain; sure and assured; expectant; fully trust; convinced and reliant] on Him. "Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding." This is the same verse in the King James Version, notice it tells us not to depend on, or be inclined to, or gravitate towards our own understanding. Honestly that is why we spend time in the Word of God to change the way we think and line up with God's thoughts. Understanding is the mental process of a person to comprehend; intellectual faculties; intelligence; knowledge of or familiarity with; skill dealing with or handling something. How often do we depend upon our own skill, intellect, knowledge, or our familiarity with people, situations, opinions, or circumstances? The last time there was a wall, or an attack, or an unusual set of circumstances in your life, did you go back to how you handled it the time before, or did you rely on God's skill, His intelligence, His knowledge? Every day we have the opportunity to lean on and be supported by God and His way of doing things. We will always have the free will to choose our way or God's. He will never force His way on any of us. We make the choice! That brings us to the next verse.
"In all your ways know, recognize, and acknowledge Him, and He will direct and make straight and plain your paths." (Prov. 3:6) This verse in the New Living Translation reads; "Seek his will in all you do, and he will show you which path to take." We should make it a habit to seek [go in search of; find and discover by searching; investigate; beat the bushes; follow after; ransack and to track down] God's will. The promise is when we seek His will He will then show us the plain and straight path. That sounds much better than having God to come behind me and straighten all the places that I have made crooked, by going my own way. When we acknowledge God by seeking His will, then He will direct and lead by making straight, smooth, level, and upright our path. Paths is the road, the way; the way of living; the passing of life; the course and the direction of life. God desires for us to come to Him and acknowledge Him in everything that involves our life and take council from the Words of His mouth [the Word of God; let's start with the Bible]. After all He has been involved long before we took form in our mother's womb, He numbered the hairs on our head, knitted every delicate and intricate part of us, and wrote every member of our body in His book. Plus He ordered the steps that we should take, knows our lying down and our rising up, and He has a good plan and destiny for us. He really should have a say so in what we do, how we do it, and when we do it, don't you think? Let us fully trust Him more and more by leaning on Him.
Love,
Pastor D.
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